"My pessimism extends to the point of even……" — Jean Rostand
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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77 Quotes by Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
- If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann…
- I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
- Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all,…
- I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
- It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
- Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
- What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought…
- It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
- Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
- There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
- There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low…